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Monday, July 02, 2012

Quick Facts on Storms, Summer Heat in Eastern US

Millions are staring down the prospect of several more days without electricity in the middle of a heat wave after severe storms over the weekend.

Food is beginning to spoil, and many people have to charge modern conveniences like cellphones in their cars or at libraries. Utility companies say they are bringing in crews from around the country to help, but they still say it could be several days before everyone has electricity again.

By Sunday evening, the number of those without power had dipped to about 2.7 million customers, down from more than 3 million at the peak of the outages.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

All of this damage done by a storm that produced no rain. I have never heard of any storm like this in over 50 years. It was not a normal weather event. It was in fact an electrical event in our atmosphere which may have had origins with human activity.

Anonymous said...

sideways lightening?...where did that come from?